Louvain-la-Neuve, réécritures

Neither a new city nor a university campus, Louvain-la-Neuve is the vision of a landscape built with the ambitions of a city, where society and sciences come together, driven by a shared cultural commitment. As the university city celebrates its half-century of existence, it already embodies a constant stratification, drawing on the founders' dream to address renewed challenges.

The triptych aims to account for these "rewritings," examining the trajectory of the dream of Louvain-la-Neuve. It thus weaves connections between scales and temporalities: a kaleidoscope of constructive forms, fragments carrying an infinite number of combinations that silently forge a new identity for Louvain-la-Neuve; the palimpsest of the territory that reveals both the historical thickness of the city's construction process and the disappearance of the landscape, outlining the reinvention of the peripheries; a capriccio in the form of a dreamed vision that extends the heritage of the agglomeration and reconsiders its conceptual foundations. The three images narrate the multiple challenges of an extraordinary collective history. A history that largely remains to be (re)written.